as you reminded your radio audience today, you said last time, bill clinton hooked up with monica. that's b one thing that happened during the last shutdown. also during the shutdown, what did we see? the gop actually gained seat s. we retained the majority in the house and gained two senate seat s. we saw welfare reform enacted afterwards and we saw finally a balanced budget that a deal was struck there. there are good things that can come out of making our federal government as irrelevant in our lives as possible. we can do it through educating the public during an opportunity like this. >> we'll get to this. we 'd like republicans to stop negotiating with themselves. and we want to ask what you think will happen next and what you would advise the leadership to do next. we just got word that the republicans are huddling in speaker boehner's office. what's going on? we don't know yet. more with governor sarah palin after the break as we monitor capitol hill. the looming government shutdown. we are 2:15 and 51 seconds away. straight ahead. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] more room in ec